News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1887-11-24
MYSTERIES OF A DAY.
NOTABLE EVENTS RECORDED
IN THE PAPERS.
A Great Dragon-A Young English
mans Romance-AS Snake Advcn-
ture-Bad Face Powder

A Great Dragon-A Young English
mans Romance-A Snake Adycn-
ture-Bad Face Powder.
LOVING YOUNG women, and others
who take quantities of their hair to hair
workers that chains and other orna-
ments NAV be made as presents for the
objects of their affections, may take
warming from the experience OF n
Bridgeport wife. She wished to give
> her husband chain made from her
own hair as a birthday present, and so
turned some hair over to a local hair
worker. The next day the husband,
who is an express messenger between
Bridgeport and this city, was asked by
the hair worker to get a hair chain IN
this city of the color of lock of hair
which was handed him. He did o,and
paid fifty cents for the readymade
chain. In due tine the wife called for
her chain and got it, paying $3.50 for
it. Then she gave it to her husband,
who recognized it as the one he had
bought for fifty cents. He told his
wife, who at last accounts was waiting
for the retuan of the hair worker, who
had quit town.
THOMAS RocERsoN, of Paterson, N.
J., died on Sunday evening of heart
disease while sitting in his chair He
was tinsmith, and his neighbors said
that for many years he seemed to work
both day and night, for his hammering
kept them awake all night. For many
years past he was the senior memer of
the firm of RogersOn and Beaumont.
Owing to q quarrel the two did not
speak to each other for nearly dozen
years, but communicated with each
other through their confidential book
keeper. The relations of the latter
became so very confidential that few
months ago it was discovered that he
had embezzled the whole capital of the
firm and even the greater part of the
book accounts. The bills had been col
lected without any credit being made.
This caused failure and Rogerson was
down-hearted up to the time of his
death.
SEVERAL YEARS ago a young English
man quarrelled with his father, who
ordered him to quit the hosue and never
return. The son went out and decided
to kill himself; and indeed drew his PTS
toll but he thought to take last look at
the photograph of his sweetheart, and
when he saw her face he decided to live
for her any way. So he came to Ameri-
ca, and settled in Nashville, where he is
to-day well-to-do citizen. Of course
the reader supposes he married his old
sweetheart. Not bit of it. The let
tiers he wrote to her never brought re-
plies, and when he returned not long
ago to look her up, he found her hap
by wife, with three children. He came
right back, married a nice American
girl, and has the kindest thoughts of the
English girl whose photograph saved
his life.
A YOUNG son of George Putnam of
Stony Ford, Pa, was bitten by a rattle
snake on August 30, 1888. Whiskey, |
or some of the many remedies tried, |
saved his life. On August %, 1884, the .
youngster was seized with pain in his |
foot, the leg and foot swelled to twice .
their normal size and became spotted, |
and the child suffered terribly for three
days. On each subsequent anniversary
of the poisoning he has been similarly
attacked, and the attacks have increased
in severity. 1t is said that o girl of
Livingston county, New York, who was
bitten by a rattlesnake thirty years ago
died in great agony on the twenty-fifth
annual recurrence of similar symptoms.
The bite of the venomOus kind of high
land mocassin has been known to have
the same effect.
PENN JOHNSON was driving through
Taylor county, Fla, the other day,
when big rattlesnake came suddenly
into the road Just ahead of the horse.
The horse tried to dodge around the
snake and the snake tried to get away
from the horse, and the result was that
the RATHER became tangled in a front
wheel of the buggy. The horse, by this
time thoroughly scared, ran, and the
revolution of the wheel threw the snake
into the buggy. Johnson thereupon
quit the vehicle in a remarkably rapid
manner, he doesn't know how, and the
horse went on like the wind. By cutting
across the country johnson overlook the
horse after a run of two miles. He
looked carefully, but there was no snake
in the buggy.
On MARCH "a, 1873, 7. W. Moore
was mysteriously killedat Ventura, Cal,
and F. A. Sprague was arrested for the
murder. On the testimony of a weak
minded young man he was convicted
ullNl oSAtCASCb W NC IlduStl, buU Tie
young man soon said that he had borne
false witness, and Sprague was spared.
-Four times thereafter he was sentenced
to be hanged, until at length Gov.
Stoneman committed the sentence to
life imprisonment. The California
press argued that Sprague was inno-
same view, for he has just pardoned
S11roo11o IubOca o1aUa,, 1,aorc o.
have changed him from the rugged
man he was to one prematurely old,
with hair and beard as white as snow.
THRRE LIVES in Troy, n. Y, little {
girl, years old, whose hair is almost
an iron gray, and is rapidly and per-
ceptibly growing Srayer, and the pres
ent indications are that long before she
reaches womanhood her once raven .
black hair will have become white as {
snow. Some three years ago the
child was frightened almost into CON {
vulsions by fire which broke out in
the part of the town where she lived I
The morning after the fire the mother J
noticed q change in the child's hair {
1t had been cut off many times in the t
vain hope that new hair would come in ,
black. The gray hairs increased all the
time, and she will soon have venerable
looking head on a pair of young shout ,,
ders.
DURING EXAMINATION at Edinburgh !
University, Scotland, the students, ow- {
ing to the scarcity of cloak rooms, in '
the excitement fling their hats, or used !
to- anywhere, and often on the examin-
er's desk. The examiner finally said t
that if he found another hat on his desk
he would rip it up. The next day while
the examiner was absent temporarily an :
undergraduate took the examiners hat !
and placed it on the desk The exami- '
ner on re-enteriug the hall saw the hat, !
and CLEAN of triumph shot over his :
face. "Gentlemen," he said, 81 told :
you what would happen if this occurred +
again. Then he deliberately cut to
pieces the hat, amid the prolonged APP
plause of the students.
MINER ED. SCHEFFELIN, who recently
sold the Toughnut mine of Arizona for
a million dollars, went to Carson the
other day and put up at the best hotel
there. When dinner was announced he
sauntered into the dining room with his
long hair trailing down over his shout )
ders, which were not covered by coat.
The head waiter told the millionaire d
that he must put on his coat. 81 guess E
you don't know who I am, you black
rascal" said Mr.. Scheffelin. 'Don't
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